Bev
Bev is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 929th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959127 births
- Best rank
- #929in 1959
- Since 1940
- 998people given the name
The story in the numbers
998 girls have been named Bev in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 127 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 127 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1960s alone account for 48%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1959, its biggest year
Bev was the 929th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Bev
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pampeak 1959
- Barbpeak 1960
- Debbiepeak 1959
- Debpeak 1958
- Debipeak 1958
- Debbypeak 1959
- Debbipeak 1958
- Cindypeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.